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RadarCOVID / radar-covid-android

Native Android app using DP^3T Android sdk to handle Exposure Notifications API from Google
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F-droid inclusion #38

Closed JVAQUEROM closed 3 years ago

JVAQUEROM commented 3 years ago

F-droid is an alternative app store to Google Play Store which has only free open source apps. I would like to see Radar COVID on it, but they request that "the original app author has been notified (and supports the inclusion)." So I would like the author(s) to support such inclusion before requesting the inclusion to F-droid's team.

I just opened the issue for the request (in case Radar COVID authors support this), and got this comment. It seems there are Firebase and GMS stuff that make it not free open source. So I hope this can be replaced by MicroG's implmentation of the exposure api, if possible.

Thank you

aeri commented 3 years ago

The new microG release has support for Exposure Notifications, I have tested it and it seems to work well with Radar COVID, it could be very interesting the integration in F-droid.

EchedelleLR commented 3 years ago

@JVAQUEROM check https://github.com/RadarCOVID/radar-covid-android/issues/27#issuecomment-691392156

JVAQUEROM commented 3 years ago

I think the new Android version (1.0.7) has dropped Firebase dependency so I think inclusion in F-droid might be possible. Not sure about how the Google Exposure API dependency would be handled, but I can run the app without Google Services (with MicroG, being this a free dependency), so...

Just hope new version gets pushed to this repository soon.

avecina commented 3 years ago

We already can get to the desired target with the play store distribution. Thanks for your suggestion.

JVAQUEROM commented 3 years ago

Could you either support the inclusion in F-droid or at least provide an APK in the "release" section of github? I understand you reach your target with Google Play Store, but others could benefit from this action at a very small cost.

Thank you in advance.

EchedelleLR commented 3 years ago

@avecina could you reply to the last message from @JVAQUEROM ?

p92canca commented 3 years ago

The new microG release has support for Exposure Notifications, I have tested it and it seems to work well with Radar COVID, it could be very interesting the integration in F-droid.

Fantastic idea!!